The coming of supermarket chains Our big corporates talked big but have they gone anywhere? Reliance and Sunil Mittal haven’t gone anywhere, it seems! How these two developments help farmers? Two latest developments that are likely to impact the farmers, the farming future and the very growth prospects of farmers and the rural development are…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
What is important about agriculture exports?
What is dangerous about agriculture imports? The conclusion of the so-called Doha Round, that talk that started in the Qatar capital in 2001,really called Doha Development Round to indicate the trade talk was for promoting. There is almost a total ignorance among the farmers; I dare say the same thing about our agriculture experts and…
The 69th Indian History Congress
Thoughts on history and history writing Can historians take the role of political activists? Indian academic historians just did this type of roles! One school of historians passed resolutions against the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi. They very same school also opposed the Babri Masjid demolition case referred to the Supreme Court. The so-called other…
Chennai music season
Only second best in Carnataic music this season! Briju Maharaj, the Kathak guru was here! This December season in Chennai, it was as usual, houseful in all sabhas. The “kutcheris” were more in number and The Hindu ran almost a full-page engagements column, unusual for any newspaper and more so for a quality newspaper like…
The Left, Right and the Centre positions on issues that affect rural India, rural India’s growth!
Prof.Amartya Sen and Dr.Manmohan Singh What are their positions on critical issues? Any thinker like Sen or any one in government like Dr.Singh can continue to talk and get away. And yet nothing worthwhile happens as it is today. Because any theory, however brilliant in hair-splitting arguments, between niti and nyaya, as Sen displayed here…
Theoreticians and practical men!
Experts and political leaders of the people! Why a new finance minister not appointed? What is the hitch? Why the Prime Minister is keeping so many portfolios? India just now, at the New Year eve, is inundated, so to say, with too many experts, economist of repute! Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel winner and professor of economics…
Online edition of this magazine launched!
Readers across the globe now have access to latest information in agriculture and related fields! Yes, thanks to the spread of Internet and along without our website (agricultureinformation.com) now in its 8th year of operations, there is a huge reservoir of demand for latest information in agriculture and related fields. This need we now address…
India needs separate Finance Minister!
Also a desperate course correction of the PM’s one-track approach! There is a clear disconnect with rural India as far as the UPA government is concerned. Yes, there are schemes like rural employment guarantee scheme. So are other schemes focused on the “distribution” of benefits to the rural mass of people? Yes, all the social…